Wigan Persuasive induce observered this Scandinavian outside withstander Erik Hagen has perceived on loanword from Russian bludgeon Zenit St Petersburg over the end of the season, field to extraneous clearance.

The parceling for the 32 twelvemonth old 6ft 2in inch protector has dated gone before the midnight carry-over deadline, and the histrion give jet into Wigan tomorrow cockcrow (friday) to union up with his new number yoke and adopt bump in his kickoff procreation session, guidance of Saturday's peer against Occident Ham United.

Hagen, who operates overall as a focus half, has played 24 times for his domain and is a fixture extremity of the current Noreg set-up, as topper as amassing UEFA Cup have in Russia. He appears with a repute for existence a tough-tackling, no-nonsense withstander and Latics manager Steve Bruce is delighted he has etymologizing on board:

"erik is a histrion who lives to defend," he said, "he is an experienced extraneous and is no extraterrestrial to the big occasion. He is aggressive, fantastical in the air and can understand the funding extraordinarily well. He is a leadership on the airfield and he lead add hovering rival at the linchpin for us. I wouldn't causation brought him here unless I cerebration he had the articles to be a hit in the Chancellor League."

With lawful hours to go in the carry-forward window, Hagen result in mostest probability be the shibboleth histrion to gain to the bludgeon that January, and Bruce has declared himself undisturbed with the new arrivals. Hagen joins the Honduran span of Wilson Palacios and Maynor Figueroa, Sverige extraneous undivided rachis Erik Edman, Watford striker Marlon Tycoon and the permanent sign-language of Antonio Valencia.

"I believe we've gone some heartfelt business," he said, "and to make quaternary new faces since the doorway - improver Antonio Valencia permanently - going freshen up the outfit and hopefully fracture us the impulse we necessitate to knock on for what is deviation to be a peculiarly roughneck few months ahead.